• Physician Oncology Education Program

    History of POEP

    Founded in 1987 by TMA with a grant from the Texas Cancer Council (now the Cancer Prevention and Resource Institute of Texas), the Physician Oncology Education Program (POEP) strives to provide Texas physicians, physicians-in-training, and those in training to become physicians (e.g., medical and undergraduate students) with the knowledge and the skills necessary to reduce cancer morbidity and mortality through collaboration among the public, private, and volunteer sectors of the state.

  • Texas Cancer Plan 2012 Now Available

    Help Texas Lead the Nation in the Fight Against Cancer 

    Have you heard that in 2012, it is estimated that more than 110,000 Texans will be told, “You have cancer”? Approximately 39,000 Texans are expected to lose their lives to cancer this year.
     
    While these statistics are sobering, Texans aren’t the type to roll over and give in without a fight. The 2012 Texas Cancer Plan outlines actions all Texans can take to help our state lead the nation in the fight against cancer.
     
    The overall success of the Plan depends on you. It depends on us. Show your Texas pride by joining the fight against cancer and encouraging others to do the same. From medical professionals to nonprofit or community-based organization, to legislators and simply an honest-to-goodness Texan, there’s something in the Plan for you!
     
    For more information about the Plan, including tools for helping to realize its goals, please visit www.txcancerplan.org. 

     

  • Cancer News

    • Greater Transparency CPRIT Operations
      TMA supports Senate Bill 149 by Sen. Jane Nelson to ensure the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute (CPRIT) has a transparent funding process in place supported by an independent and robust scientific review of the merit of all grants. Texas took a big step forward to fight cancer when in 2007 Texans approved the state proposition that authorized CPRIT. Cancer research and prevention is important. More than 100,000 families this year will learn that a member of their family has been diagnosed with a cancer. Almost 40,000 families will lose a family member in their fight with cancer.
    • TMA’s 2013 Legislative Agenda
      As TMA laid out the association’s legislative agenda for the 83rd session of the Texas Legislature, Michael E. Speer, MD, TMA's president, said we must work together to put patients before politics.  
    • Lifesavers
      Grant funding from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has totaled more than $760 million for research, commercialization, and prevention projects since the 2007 Texas Legislature approved $3 billion in bonds to create the organization. With additional funds from grant recipients, the institute has invested more than $902 million in Texas' quest to prevent and cure cancer.

  • Contact Us

    TMA Physician Oncology Education Program
    401 W. 15th St.
    Austin, TX 78701-1680
    (800) 880-1300, ext. 1469
    E-mail  POEP